Yup, and why overclocking on AMD tests each of your ccx/cores, marks gold cores that can reach 5ghz+, and slower cores that dont overclock. Also why AMD tests e

Yup, and why overclocking on AMD tests each of your ccx/cores, marks gold cores that can reach 5ghz+, and slower cores that dont overclock. Also why AMD tests each ccx, and moves worse ones to lower end products, and higher ones to the 5950x. Then you can OC tweak each core and try to milk out performance, PBO tends to be pretty good on detecting which cores with slight performance boost. With a few bios options, all that adds up without effort. And then finally get a better (advanced) scheduler in windows/linux that can move workloads around per core depending on workload. Windows released multiple fixes for the scheduler on AMD starting with win10 1903. I find scheduler mods and modest bios tweaks to increase performance without much effort, very detectable performance. Linux I use xanmod (and pf-kernel before that) Windows I use project lasso and AMD PBO. Slow/fast cores and scheduler tweaks is how win11/arm mac/android, makes things appear faster too. Amusing, scheduler/core tweaks been around for linux for a decade+, making the desktop super smooth, but its now mainstream in win11/arm osx.